in Helsinki it's rabbits & hares that are taking over. rabbits in the
cemetaries, hares in the suburbs. not to mention that at least two moose
have been running around in the city, lost or vacationing, lost in pursuit
or put down. AND in a suburb near me a family of swans came to wonder at the
streets.
and people wonder why I have so much animal anthropomorphism in my poetry.
KS
2008/6/28 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hey Patrick
>
> round here, with those swimming around things, herons are on the
> increase, I saw no less than four in the space of a quarter of the
> mile on the riverside last week. Beautiful horrible creatures they
> are, the summer before last they got into Lydia's garden and ate all
> the goldfish in her former-Czechoslavakia-shaped pond. You see one
> close up and it's like Walking with Dinosaurs live.
>
> I wouldn't like to enquire about their politics.
>
> 2008/6/28 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> > JESSE Now that Brain cap is swimming along up in the fish sky -not
> bounded
> > by ponds too small -he may going around to visit all us poetryetcers -I
> will
> > keep a look out -not sure how long it will take him to get to Raynes Park
> > Maybe end of august??
> > Cheers Patrick
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: 28 June 2008 01:39
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Braincap in Elysium
> >
> > A great thank you to everyone! I can even sense that those who did not
> > respond were too full of emotion to do so: I more than most realize that
> > sentiment sometimes acts as a crazy glue to the seat of the pants while
> > an invisible bar rockets repeatedly through the left cheek and out the
> > top of the skull in an explosion of the fuggy black-powder of
> > lugubricity.
> >
> > Be that as it may, Mr. Schwartz's poem and other sentiments were printed
> > on scraps of Chinese Hell Money and burnt in a steel brazier in the park
> > (to the accompaniment of Beethoven's 9the "Ode to Joy"), so that the
> > smoke could wend its way to Braincap in Elysium.
> >
> > While staring up through these clouded light receptors called my eyes, I
> > believe I saw a flash of a piscine tail among the clouds signalling
> > "all is well."
> >
> > Let us hope so,
> >
> > Jesse
> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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